Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

Wenger is the best coach I've worked with.

In any rebuilding process, I feel like there's probably going to be two or three coaches.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

I think me making the Select Team was huge. It was the chance for me to be around those guys and see their work ethic and how they prepare. I think that's what I took the most away from it.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

Coaching the national team would be great.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

Ancelotti is a great coach, and we talk often.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.

I was very proud of my time in Kansas City. I thought we acquired a heck of a roster.

I learned how to be a pro, I learned how to win, I learned about building relationships with your teammates; it goes beyond basketball. I pretty much learned everything I know from OKC.

Any business or club has to have a hierarchy. Everybody needs to know and understand his role in the overall structure. Bayern Munich is no different.